In an interview with Top Gear, von Koenigsegg was coerced into admitting that a four-door could be in the cards for the Swedish boutique builder. “Yes, I can imagine a car like that,” von Koenigsegg told them. “Maybe within the next five years, possibly earlier than that.”

On the other hand, don’t expect the bonkers Swedish purveyors of four-digit horsepower ratings to crank out anything that competes with the likes of the Porsche 911 on size or—heaven forbid—price. “To me, in the last few years, that sector—the 911, the McLaren, the Ferrari 458, etc.—is a hornet’s nest which I want to stay well away from. I’m happy way out here, away from that in my little blue ocean.”

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So, von Koenigsegg is perfectly happy to stay on the bizarro bleeding fringe of hypercar weirdness. It’s where Koenigsegg does its best work, as evidenced by what the company’s plans for a camshaft-less engine: “The way I see it, if you view the engine as a piano, and the valves as keys, with a camshaft, you’re playing the piano with a broomstick.” An engine with directly-actuated valves could have infinitely variable valve timing and lift, the founder says, allowing for better airflow across all RPM, along with trickery that could eliminate throttles and make cylinder deactivation simple.

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It’s something the supercar company’s founder has been obsessed with for nearly 14 years, with eight engineers at Koenigsegg working on the idea. “It’s getting ready for fruition, but not only in Koenigsegg,” he says. “We’re working with a couple of large OEMs and looking to implement it. Definitely within the next couple of years, you’ll see it.”

So then: The very near future could bring us a Koenigsegg hypercar with four doors and zero camshafts, one that could potentially—hopefully—carry on the grand company traditions of four-figure horsepower, unfathomably lightweight construction, and gee-whiz doors that open like a piece of carbon-fiber origami. We can’t wait.